Questions and answers
Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
- Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
- Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber
Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.
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Question reference: S6W-31844
- Asked by: Martin Whitfield, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been allocated to improving physical education facilities in schools in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-31835
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has considered introducing a cap on the cost for a registrar to conduct a marriage ceremony.
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Question reference: S6W-31826
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-12880 by Richard Lochhead on 20 December 2022, what information it has regarding what the (a) claimant count and (b) unemployment rate in Dundee has been in each year since June 2022, broken down by ward area.
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Question reference: S6W-31845
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the calls by the Miracle Foundation for the establishment of a 24-hour trauma therapy support centre for young people in the NHS Lanarkshire area, and whether it will provide funding towards this.
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Question reference: S6W-31821
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of any costs that it has incurred through legal action that it has been party to in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S6W-31820
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how it is assessing the impact of the four new mobile endoscopy units on faster diagnosis for inflammatory bowel disease.
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Question reference: S6W-31846
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what services are in place that support young people who have been identified as at risk of self-harm.
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Question reference: S6W-31841
- Asked by: Martin Whitfield, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of schools do not have access to a dedicated PE teacher.
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Question reference: S6W-31828
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-04456 by Lorna Slater on 18 November 2021, what information it has regarding the (a) weight and (b) carbon impact of the single-use (i) plastic cutlery, (ii) plastic plates, (iii) plastic straws, (iv) plastic beverage stirrers and balloon sticks, (v) food containers made of expanded polystyrene and (vi) cups and other beverage containers made of expanded polystyrene, including their covers and lids, that have been used in Scotland in each year since 2021-22.
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Question reference: S6W-31831
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what members of the health and social care workforce are qualified to carry out home ear wax removal services, and what assessment it has made of any vacancy levels in this area, including any recruitment and retention challenges.
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